Scientists at Russia’s famous Pulkovo Observatory are convinced that the world is in for a period of global cooling. Is it a coincidence that Arkansas is experiencing April snow for the first time in nearly two centuries?

For the first time since written weather history began in Arkansas (1819), snow has fallen in the month of May.

This snow has set records for the latest snowfall and latest measurable snowfall in the state.

The previous latest snowfall ever recorded was on April 30, 1903 at Harrison, Gravette and Fayetteville. This was not measurable. The previous latest measurable snowfall was 0.2 inches at Corning on April 24, 1910. Source

According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless.

“Journalists say the entire process is very simple: once solar activity declines, the temperature drops. But besides solar activity, the climate is influenced by other factors, including the lithosphere, the atmosphere, the ocean, the glaciers. The share of solar activity in climate change is only 20%. This means that sun’s activity could trigger certain changes whereas the actual climate changing process takes place on the Earth”.

WMO Annual Climate Statement Confirms 2012 as Among Top Ten Warmest Years

GENEVA, 2 May 2013 (WMO) The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year.

The 2012 global land and ocean surface temperature during January–December 2012 is estimated to be 0.45°C (±0.11°C) above the 1961–1990 average of 14.0°C. This is the ninth warmest year since records began in 1850 and the 27th consecutive year that the global land and ocean temperatures were above the 1961–1990 average, according to the statement. The years 2001–2012 were all among the top 13 warmest years on record.

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No one who was born after 1985 has seen even a monthof below average temperatures in their lifetime.

But then again, it did snow a little in Arkansas a little later than usual. So, never mind about the global warming thing.

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The past 17 years of flat global temperatures are creating a big chill for lots of global warming doom-premised industries. Those experiencing cold sweats must certainly include legions of climate scientists who have come to depend upon the many tens of billions of taxpayer bucks for studies that would have little demand without a big crisis for the public to worry about. And that amount pales in comparison with the hundreds of $ billions we spend on generous subsidies, lost tax revenues and inflated consumer costs for otherwise non-competitive “green energy” industries which depend upon those scary climate reports, or the insane economic penalties imposed upon all segments through EPA’s climate-premised regulatory rampage.

Cooler temperatures blow ill-winds for government bureaucrats, crony-capitalist rent- seekers, and other hucksters whose ambitions depend upon hot air. Even Western Europe, the cradle of carbon-caused climate craziness and cap-and-trade corruption, is feeling a cold draft. As Alister Doyle, reporting from Reuters in Oslo, recently observed: “Weak economic growth and the pause in warming is undermining governments’ willingness to make a rapid billion-dollar shift from fossil fuels. Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a plan by the end of 2015 to combat global warming.”

In April, the Parliament in Strasbourg voted against artificially propping up the price of Emission Trading System carbon permit prices following the collapse of energy demand in connection with the Continent’s economic crisis. While the low price of carbon allowances is great for energy customers, you can be assured that it is viewed very differently by so-called “renewable” energy and carbon credit trading promoters who depend upon higher-than-market fossil fuel prices to stay in business. The Parliament’s veto reflects encouraging recognition that unwarranted, economy-ravaging carbon rationing is a feverish folly.

Yet as well-known Climate Depot blogger Marc Morano, recognizes: “NOAA can only claim that 2012 was the warmest single year on record through statistical tricks…including “adjusting” raw data and adding data to the overall data set from stations that did not exist when the record first started being recorded. Absent these illegitimate actions, the measured temperatures from the 1930s still match or exceed the measured temperatures from the 1990s and 2000s.”

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain

As I read your article I can see now that you are pleased a coke plant has gone into full operation in your back yard. Since all this environmental worry is just a money making scheme.

Without coke plants, you would not have water at the faucets in your home, a car (electric or any other kind) in your garage, the computers necessary for the internet that allows forums such as this to exist, the power grids that power those computers (and the rest of the world's modern conveniences), anything made of plastic, and so on, and so on, ad nauseum.

Just sayin'...

Also, the coke plant to which (I believe) you refer is much cleaner than the older, conventional (by-products) type coke plants which have been supplying metallurgical coke for most of the last century, and hundreds of which continue to operate around the world (including in our backyard) today.

What I am saying is: No coke=no steel, and no steel=no modern life as we know it.

As I read your article I can see now that you are pleased a coke plant has gone into full operation in your back yard. Since all this environmental worry is just a money making scheme.

The Coke plant is/was different things to different people. For me, it was never about global warming, and the fact I was forced to fight a project such as this was very conflicting and in many ways, against everything I believed in! Property values, quality of life, and the audacity of the operator to build in such a location totally against all aspects of appropriateness were at the heart of the matter for me. There were places already contaminated with more than enough room to place this beast that would have been better for all concerned. The short sightedness and lack of doing what is right by all parties, especially the EPA in making it so it could never go were it should, brought us to where we are.

The left is totally against Capitalism and believe it to be the root cause of most of todays issues. While it is not a perfect system, it is the only system that will work, and the only one which has lifted billions of people from a primitive existence, into classes of prosperity which had never been seen before from the beginning of time.

Am I pleased I have to coexist with a coke plant? Ask yourself that question and the answer is pretty simple. I try to be a positive person, yet am anchored in reality enough that it sometimes is offsetting at best. The Coke plant has virtually assured I will never have a housing subdivision behind me, and to me, that's a good thing. However, with an existing coke plant back there, the possibilities are endless what might be, in lieu of housing!

The question of global warming becomes, how many billions will we spend, and how many millions of jobs will be lost, and will we stop the madness before going past the point of no return. TBD?

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain

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